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(#) Application has disabled safe browsing for all WebView objects

!!! WARNING: Application has disabled safe browsing for all WebView objects
   This is a warning.

Id
:   `DisabledAllSafeBrowsing`
Summary
:   Application has disabled safe browsing for all WebView objects
Severity
:   Warning
Category
:   Security
Platform
:   Android
Vendor
:   Google - Android 3P Vulnerability Research
Contact
:   https://github.com/google/android-security-lints
Feedback
:   https://github.com/google/android-security-lints/issues
Min
:   Lint 4.1
Compiled
:   Lint 8.0 and 8.1
Artifact
:   [com.android.security.lint:lint](com_android_security_lint_lint.md.html)
Since
:   1.0.1
Affects
:   Manifest files
Editing
:   This check runs on the fly in the IDE editor
See
:   https://goo.gle/DisabledAllSafeBrowsing
Implementation
:   [Source Code](https://github.com/google/android-security-lints/tree/main/checks/src/main/java/com/example/lint/checks/SafeBrowsingDetector.kt)
Tests
:   [Source Code](https://github.com/google/android-security-lints/tree/main/checks/src/test/java/com/example/lint/checks/SafeBrowsingDetectorTest.kt)
Copyright Year
:   2024

Safe Browsing is a service to help applications check URLs against a
known list of unsafe web resources. We recommend keeping Safe Browsing
enabled at all times and designing your app around any constraints this
causes.

!!! Tip
   This lint check has an associated quickfix available in the IDE.

(##) Example

Here is an example of lint warnings produced by this check:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~text
AndroidManifest.xml:3:Warning: Safe Browsing should be kept enabled at
all times, as it aims to keep users from unsafe URLs
[DisabledAllSafeBrowsing]
    &lt;meta-data android:name='android.webkit.WebView.EnableSafeBrowsing' android:value='false'/&gt;
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here is the source file referenced above:

`AndroidManifest.xml`:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~xml linenumbers
&lt;manifest xmlns:android='http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android' package='test.pkg'&gt;
&lt;application android:debuggable='false'&gt;
    &lt;meta-data android:name='android.webkit.WebView.EnableSafeBrowsing' android:value='false'/&gt;
    &lt;activity android:name='com.example.MainActivity'&gt;&lt;/activity&gt;
&lt;/application&gt;
&lt;/manifest&gt;
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You can also visit the
[source code](https://github.com/google/android-security-lints/tree/main/checks/src/test/java/com/example/lint/checks/SafeBrowsingDetectorTest.kt)
for the unit tests for this check to see additional scenarios.

The above example was automatically extracted from the first unit test
found for this lint check, `SafeBrowsingDetector.testWhenSafeBrowsingDisabledInManifest_showsWarning`.
To report a problem with this extracted sample, visit
https://github.com/google/android-security-lints/issues.

(##) Including

!!!
   This is not a built-in check. To include it, add the below dependency
   to your project. This lint check is included in the lint documentation,
   but the Android team may or may not agree with its recommendations.

```
// build.gradle.kts
lintChecks("com.android.security.lint:lint:1.0.3")

// build.gradle
lintChecks 'com.android.security.lint:lint:1.0.3'

// build.gradle.kts with version catalogs:
lintChecks(libs.com.android.security.lint.lint)

# libs.versions.toml
[versions]
com-android-security-lint-lint = "1.0.3"
[libraries]
# For clarity and text wrapping purposes the following declaration is
# shown split up across lines, but in TOML it needs to be on a single
# line (see https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/516) so adjust
# when pasting into libs.versions.toml:
com-android-security-lint-lint = {
    module = "com.android.security.lint:lint",
    version.ref = "com-android-security-lint-lint"
}
```

1.0.3 is the version this documentation was generated from;
there may be newer versions available.

[Additional details about com.android.security.lint:lint](com_android_security_lint_lint.md.html).
(##) Suppressing

You can suppress false positives using one of the following mechanisms:

* Adding the suppression attribute
  `tools:ignore="DisabledAllSafeBrowsing"` on the problematic XML
  element (or one of its enclosing elements). You may also need to add
  the following namespace declaration on the root element in the XML
  file if it's not already there:
  `xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"`.

  ```xml
  &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"&gt;
      ...
      &lt;meta-data tools:ignore="DisabledAllSafeBrowsing" .../&gt;
    ...
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  ```

* Using a special `lint.xml` file in the source tree which turns off
  the check in that folder and any sub folder. A simple file might look
  like this:
  ```xml
  &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;lint&gt;
      &lt;issue id="DisabledAllSafeBrowsing" severity="ignore" /&gt;
  &lt;/lint&gt;
  ```
  Instead of `ignore` you can also change the severity here, for
  example from `error` to `warning`. You can find additional
  documentation on how to filter issues by path, regular expression and
  so on
  [here](https://googlesamples.github.io/android-custom-lint-rules/usage/lintxml.md.html).

* In Gradle projects, using the DSL syntax to configure lint. For
  example, you can use something like
  ```gradle
  lintOptions {
      disable 'DisabledAllSafeBrowsing'
  }
  ```
  In Android projects this should be nested inside an `android { }`
  block.

* For manual invocations of `lint`, using the `--ignore` flag:
  ```
  $ lint --ignore DisabledAllSafeBrowsing ...`
  ```

* Last, but not least, using baselines, as discussed
  [here](https://googlesamples.github.io/android-custom-lint-rules/usage/baselines.md.html).

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